Russia DPRK Reports

Friday, September 1, 2000

The “DPRK Report” is the product of a joint project between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Monterey, California, USA) and the Institute for Contemporary International Problems (ICIP) (Moscow, Russia). It is written by Russian analysts associated with the ICIP and edited by the CNS.

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1. The Role of the United States, Russia, China, and Japan in the Inter-Korean Dialogue; 2. The Summit’s Influence on North Korea’s Foreign Policy; 3. Reaction to the Summit within the DPRK; 4. The Summit’s Impact on the Political and Economic Stability of Kim Jong-il’s Regime; 5. Chinese Appraisals of the Inter-Korean Summit; 6. Russian President Putin’s Visit to the DPRK; 7. Pyongyang’s Missile Potential and American Plans for NMD and TMD; 8. North Korean Refugees in China.

1. North Korean Views of the U.S. National Missile Defense Program; 2. North Korean Views of Japanese Plans to Develop TMD; 3. The New Phase in Russian-North Korean Relations; 4. Izvestiya Report on Alleged Russian Influence over Pyongyang’s Missile Tests; 5. North Korean Views on the Russian Presidential Elections.

1) North Korea’s Reaction to the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia. 2) The Status of North Korean Military Maintenance and Readiness. 3) The First Russian-South Korean Forum on Relations with the DPRK. 4) The Impact of South Korean Tourism on the North.